The INTERFILM Jury with the members

Barbara Pressler, Vienna
Eva Furrer-Haller, Zurich
Gesine Kleinschmit, Frankfurt/Main
Tom C. Gerhardt, Saarbruecken

awards the INTERFILM Award carrying a prize money of 2.000 € donated by the three church districts Ottweiler, Saarbruecken, and Voelklingen to the film

Utopia Blues
by Stefan Haupt, Switzerland 2001

Motivation: The film tells the story of a young man whose passion disregards conventions. Outstanding performances and precise storytelling succeed in illuminating the balancing act of life, its abysms and its radical possibilities. Open-ended the film leaves the audience with the question about the limits of normality between illness and health, between creativity and craze.